The Council uses alternative investment strategies to reduce risk, enhance returns and diversify its holdings. These alternative, or private-market asset classes are ideal for long-term institutional investors like the SIC, seeking diversification benefits and a premium on investment returns in exchange for less liquidity.

Real Return: the SIC’s real return strategy is a combination of income-producing “hard” assets like infrastructure, timber and energy, combined with diversified inflation strategies like floating-rate debt and inflation-protected government bonds. The Real Return Pool is currently not available to clients.